Computer Power Needed to Clone a Human

The "kid" in my story, The Kid and Wild Bill, is not your everyday computer wiz. When it comes to cloning his hero, Wild Bill Hickok, he needed much more than his Apple computer. He needed the power of a mega-computer, or Quantum computer.

What he sat before was not just any computer and Josh was not just any run-of-the-mill teenage techno geek. He was a super smart geek, and as he slipped on14^th-gen Google Glass he was instantly linked to the power of a remote computer.

This computer—actually a half mile of linked computers—was located in abandoned silver mines deep beneath Fort Hauchuca, home of the U.S. Army Intelligence Center, and the U.S. Army Network Enterprise Technology Command, or NETCOM, 9^th Army Signal Command, located in Cochise County, Arizona. The computer cluster—the magna-quantum computer—with a massive multi-parallelism of 300 quantumbits, or qubits, had the ability to be in more states simultaneously than there are atoms in the universe. With the brand name, Prometheus Quantum Computer, it had 80+ petflops of power, or 80 trillion floating point-operations per second. 

           Quantum computers were almost magical as they seemingly transformed logarithmic problems into flat computations from an alternative dimension. They were prized tools of the alphabet agencies: CIA, NSA, NASA, and a particularly nasty organization that didn’t even have an acronym. 

The Kid and Wild Bill is available at Amazon and Barnes & Noble websites.